Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales

This show had four Julia Donaldson stories in it: Monkey Puzzle; A Squash and a Squeeze; The Smartest Giant in Town; and Tiddler. There were three performers who did loads of singing and dancing and played funny instruments.

They had great ideas for how to make normal things seem like animals, like when they turned their fisherman’s hats into jellyfish. The puppets were good too, and they used torches to make cool shadows on a big screen. The shark was brilliant. They used two ladders and a plank of wood in clever ways to make it seem like they were in different places, like the jungle, the farm or under the sea.

It was a bit weird the way they kept stopping Monkey Puzzle, doing a different story, and then carrying on with Monkey Puzzle again. But I really liked the cute rope monkey and the monkey song. I also really liked the old lady in A Squash and a Squeeze – her voice made me laugh!

Mostly this show was really good and quite funny, and I think that most other kids would like it too. I think I maybe would have liked it better when I was three or four because I did feel a tiny bit bored a couple of times.